Archive for August, 2009

Wide awake at 3 a.m.

Gotta love that jetlag!  Things are pretty quiet outside, save for the chirping of the crickets and frogs.  The buses have stopped, the students have gone to bed (although some were spotted at 2 a.m. emerging from the Pottery Jungle area with flashlights and glow sticks), and only the occasional taxi bringing professors back from […]

Back in the Big Sticky

I’ve been away for 2 months, drying out my skin and escaping the worst of Singapore’s summer weather.  I guess it’s not all that bad, compared to Taiwan, South India and Iraq – temperatures max out at 96, for instance – but still I needed some long stretches of cooler weather.  My spouse found this […]